Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 668 743
Rank change year-on-year +31 +75 -220
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 26 15 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.029% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.080% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 41
10th Percentile £62,500 £71,423 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,412 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,253 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% +3.34% +18.80%
75th Percentile £111,250 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £172,500 - £137,913
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £85,253 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.89% +6.57% +34.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,730 18,713 28,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 36.67% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,741 11,079 23,507
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 22 £90,000 +5.57% 24
London +45 14 £95,000 - 12
UK excluding London +21 10 £70,000 -17.89% 11
Work from Home +75 9 £95,000 +11.43% 9
North West +16 5 - -
North of England -8 5 - - 7
Wales +3 2 £70,000 - 1
South West - 2 £87,500 - 2
South East +15 1 £60,000 - 1

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) GCP
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
3 14 (53.85%) Azure
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (26.92%) GitHub
5 7 (26.92%) SaaS
6 6 (23.08%) Azure AKS
7 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
9 2 (7.69%) Apigee
9 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (7.69%) Cloud Run
9 2 (7.69%) IaaS
9 2 (7.69%) Serverless
9 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (30.77%) BigQuery
3 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) Apache Ignite
4 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
4 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) CircleCI
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Law
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) React
2 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 6 (23.08%) React Native
3 4 (15.38%) RESTful
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (11.54%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.69%) pytest
6 1 (3.85%) Jest
6 1 (3.85%) JWT
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth
6 1 (3.85%) Playwright
6 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
4 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Genomics
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Android
1 6 (23.08%) Apple iOS
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 11 (42.31%) Test Automation
4 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven
4 9 (34.62%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (23.08%) AI
7 6 (23.08%) Android Development
7 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (23.08%) iOS Development
8 5 (19.23%) Agile
8 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (15.38%) Fintech
9 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
10 3 (11.54%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (11.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 6 (23.08%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (84.62%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) Argo
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Rancher
5 1 (3.85%) Istio
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Solace
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk